ولَوِ اعتُبِرَت نسبةُ صفةِ الكلامِ إلى ذاتِ اللهِ تعالى، فهي من صفاتِ ذاتِه، مع عِلمِه.

A--- Considering relating the Speech Attribute to the Entity of Allah Almighty, it is one of His Entity Attributes along with His Knowledge.

بل هو من علمه، أنزله بعلمه، وهو أعلم بما أنزل. وأما كلامه بمشيئته وإرادته، فهو صفة تتعلق بفعله.

Rather, it constitutes part of His Knowledge, He sent it down with His Knowledge and He is the Best Knower of what He sends down. As for His Speaking with His Will and Wish, it is an Attribute related to His Acting.

قال النبي محمد ﷺ: "إذا أراد الله أن يقضي أمراً تكلم بالوحي." ولهذا قال علماؤنا الأتقياء من السلف في صفة الكلام: "هي صفة للذات والفعل معاً، فإن الله تعالى كان ولا يزال موصوفاً بالكلام أزلاً وأبداً، وأن تكلمه وخطابه مرتبط بمشيئته وإرادته، فهو يتكلم إذا شاء، ومتى شاء، وكيف شاء، بكلمات يسمعها من يشاء، وكلامه صفة لا آخر لها ولا انقطاع. قال الله تعالى:

As said by Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him): "If Allah wills to reveal the matter, He speaks with Revelation.” For this, our pious scholars of the earlier Muslims said regarding the Speech Attribute: "It is a Quality of both the Entity and Acting. For Allah, Glory be His, was and still described with Speech ever and forever, and that His Speaking and Addressing is up to His Will and Wish. He speaks if He wills, when He wills, and in the manner He wills with Words to be heard by whom He wills. His Speech is an Attribute with no end or termination. Allah says:

قُلْ لِلنَّاسِ يَا مُحَمَّدُ ﷺ: { قُلْ لَوْ كَانَ الْبَحْرُ مِدَادًا لِكَلِمَاتِ رَبِّي لَنَفِدَ الْبَحْرُ قَبْلَ أَنْ تَنْفَدَ كَلِمَاتُ رَبِّي وَلَوْ جِئْنَا بِمِثْلِهِ مَدَدًا }. (الكهف، ١٠٩)

{Say (O Muhammad (Peace be upon him) to mankind): "If the sea were ink for (writing) the Words of my Lord, surely, the sea would be exhausted before the Words of my Lord would be finished, even if We brought (another sea) like it for its aid}. (Al-Kahf, 109)

قال الله تعالى: {وَلَوْ أَنَّمَا فِي الْأَرْضِ مِن شَجَرَةٍ أَقْلَامٌ وَالْبَحْرُ يَمُدُّهُ مِن بَعْدِهِ سَبْعَةُ أَبْحُرٍ مَّا نَفِدَتْ كَلِمَاتُ اللَّهِ}

Allah says: {And if all the trees on the earth were pens and the sea (were ink wherewith to write), with seven seas behind it to add to its (supply), yet the Words of Allah would not be exhausted}.

(لقمان، ٢٧)

(Luqman, 27)

قال الله تعالى: {وَتَمَّتْ كَلِمَتُ رَبِّكَ صِدْقًا وَعَدْلًا ۚ لَّا مُبَدِّلَ لِكَلِمَاتِهِ ۚ وَهُوَ السَّمِيعُ الْعَلِيمُ} (الأنعام: 115)

Allah the Almighty says: {And the Word of your Lord has been fulfilled in truth and in justice. None can change His Words. And He is the All-Hearer, the All-Knower}. (Al-An'am, 115)